After Li Cheng came back from home, he had been feeling depressed.
He didn't know that his two younger brothers were going crazy for money.
A conspiracy hatched to plot against him officially kicked off.
Although he had an unfortunate childhood, Li Cheng did not have the blaming and decadent look of children who were abused since childhood.
On the contrary, Li Cheng has a rather delicate appearance and a tall figure, which can be said to be like a jade tree facing the wind.
Even though I am frowning now in order to help my mother live a good life, there is still a heroic spirit between her brows.
In the words of Little Eagle, Li Cheng probably didn't pick it up, right?
That short, fat and ugly Sun didn't look like a woman who could give birth to a child like Li Cheng.
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At that time, the True Fire Hall was about to recruit outer disciples again, and many boys and girls came to participate in the competition. Li Cheng, Little Eagle, and Gu Yuan were watching the excitement.
Watching with them were many disciples who had been practicing for a long time.
Some young and beautiful girls gathered around, seeming to be commenting on something, looking at them while talking and laughing freely.
A few girls pointed at Li Cheng, who was standing in the wind, and whispered something.
The girls' red faces are like ripe apples, looking so beautiful in the sun.
The little eagle was so excited that he couldn't help but want to pull Gu Yuan and Li Cheng forward to say hello to the girls.
Gu Yuan and Li Cheng were determined not to go, and looked disgusted as if they didn't recognize him.
Many disciples who have been practicing for a long time are also whispering among themselves.
"It seems that it has only been a few months since we last participated in the disciple recruitment ceremony. Why is it that our True Fire Hall has started recruiting disciples again now?
Isn’t it said that the apprenticeship ceremony only happens once a year?”
"This time we are just recruiting some well-qualified outer disciples. It is not considered a grand ceremony for recruiting disciples. It is said that it is because there have been many casualties among disciples in the secret realm in recent times, so the True Fire Hall is eager to recruit new disciples."
"Why do I think these little brats are not as brave as we were back then?"
"Ahem, for a sect, if your cultivation level is not too low, you should at least refine your Qi. If you can enter the secret realm, everything else depends on their own luck."
"So, is the secret realm about to be opened again?"
"I guess so?
If the elder doesn't open the secret realm, the monthly salary of so many disciples will be enough to give the elder a headache."
"Yeah, if you don't open a secret realm sect, where will the income come from?"
The young people who were selected to become outer disciples gathered together and listened to the instructions of the great elders with excitement on their faces.
They have not yet been given a treasure bag that can be used for storage, and they are carrying large and small bags of things that the family has prepared for them.
Li Cheng sadly thought of himself back then, wearing patched clothes that were too small and not even a decent piece of luggage.
According to the usual practice, after these young people are elected, they will receive a precious Qi Gathering Pill. They will first practice it on their own in the training pavilion under the guidance of the elders who teach the skills. After seven days, they will enter the secret realm to test the water.
Since these junior brothers and sisters who are just getting started can enter Qi refining at a young age, most of their families are not too bad.
In other words, they are all little flowers and grass that grew up in a greenhouse. They have not experienced the beatings in the world of cultivation, let alone the cruelty of the laws of the secret realm.
Although, they may have been told by their senior brothers and elders that everyone in the secret realm may turn into a devil, and you can only survive if you are more ruthless than others.
But they have never experienced life and death. After all, they do not have such intuitive feelings. Only by seeing it with their own eyes can they know how cruel this secret realm is.
Seeing these new juniors and juniors smiling, they contacted the team in advance and prepared to enter the secret realm together.
Gu Yuan was thinking, how many of them can survive?
Li Cheng was also thinking about something on the side, but he was not thinking about the fate of these new teenagers like Gu Yuan.
He is thinking about himself.
Growing up, Old Man Liu was beaten, scolded and bullied for no reason, as well as his mother's cowardice and the huge difference in treatment between him and his two younger brothers, which all made him miserable.
His home never made him feel the slightest warmth.
If this family hadn't hindered his cultivation progress, he might have established the foundation long ago, and he would definitely have achieved more than what he had achieved in front of him.
He was not willing to be squeezed out of everything by this family, like it was knocking his bones and sucking out his marrow.
He wanted to take his mother away from this home, which in his opinion had no warmth, but his mother did not agree. What his mother was thinking about were his two younger brothers.
At this moment, Li Cheng was confused. He looked at other people's relatives and then at his own relatives. He didn't understand why his family treated him like this.
Before he could figure it out, a disciple walked up to him and said, "Li Cheng, your brother asked me to bring you a letter!"
Li Cheng thanked him and unfolded the letter. On the letter was Liu Dabao's crooked and ugly calligraphy.
Li Cheng frowned and said nothing.
The little eagle came over and asked: "Li Cheng, what's wrong?
Is your family coming to ask for money again?"
Gu Yuan also stood closer, and Li Cheng exhaled and said softly: "My brother said that my mother is seriously ill and urgently needs money for treatment, but I just came home at noon, and my mother was doing the laundry.
Nothing happened."
"Then what are you going to do?"
Gu Yuan asked.
"I have to go home again and see what's going on."
"Li Cheng, as for your vampire family, they don't regard you as their own family at all. I have known you for two years, when have they ever cared about you?
I can only think of you when you receive your monthly salary!"
Little Eagle's words were quite tactful. He mainly wanted to remind Li Cheng, "You can go back and have a look. No matter whether your mother is really sick or fake, you have to be more careful after everything is over."
Li Cheng pondered for a while, with a sarcastic smile on his face, "Well, I have figured out a lot of things in the past few days. Don't worry, I can't let them treat me like a monkey."
After Li Cheng finished speaking, he lifted his legs and left, planning to go home first to check the situation.
The little eagle was very worried and caught up and added, "Li Cheng, you don't have any money on you, right?"
Can you get some emergency supplies from me first?"
"No need for now, I'll go back and take a look first."
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Outside the gate of Zhenhuotang, a group of parents of children are looking forward to it.
Their children were selected to become outer disciples, and they stayed here because they wanted to see their children again.
Seeing Li Cheng coming out wearing the attire of an inner disciple, many parents gathered around him and wanted to ask about the situation inside the mountain gate.
Li Cheng waved his hands and didn't want to speak. At this time, a middle-aged man in brocade clothes took Li Cheng's hand and stuffed an ingot of gold into Li Cheng's hand.
"Young hero, please bring some food to my lady. It's her first time away from home, and I'm afraid she won't be used to the food here."
The middle-aged man said and handed over an exquisite snack box.
Looking at the gold in his hand, Li Cheng nodded.
The middle-aged man was overjoyed and said, "My young lady's name is Su Jiu'er."